Catholic Law Professor Lucia A. Silecchia’s was quoted in a Washington Times article reflecting on Pope Benedict's passing. Silecchia's reflection focused on Benedict's work regarding ecology.

The Washington Times 
By: Mark A. Kellner
Date: December 31, 2022 
Benedict remembered as humble scholar, not ‘God’s Rottweiler’

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“One of the things that I don't think Pope Benedict gets much credit for is the work that he did on ecology,” said Lucia Ann Silecchia, a law professor at the Catholic University of America.

She said Benedict addressed the “intersection” of environmental law and Catholic social thinking during a 2008 conference at the Vatican and that his writings about ecology “will age well.”

Ms. Silecchia, also a scholar with the Institute for Human Ecology, said Benedict’s encyclicals went to the root causes of societal issues.

“What I see in Pope Benedict is rather than addressing specific issues, his background as a theologian in [his] three encyclicals has really come through, not at addressing discrete social questions but in diagnosing the root of those problems,” she said.
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